New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-21
THE REPCBLICAN PRIMARIES.
LIVELY CONTESTS EXPECTED IN SOME OF THE DIS


LIVELY CONTESTS EXPECTED IN SOME OF THE DIS
TRICTs
The Republican primaries OIL Friday afternoon and
evening promise 10 be rather lively in OF the dis
tricts and there will certainly be large vote cast
I'm each district there i'll be elected president first
and sec ond vicepresdents secretary and treasurer
five enrolling officers and inspectors OF elections,
delegation TO the County Committee, and district
committee OF forty, except in the Twenty-third and
Twentyiourth Wards, where exception is made. The
places fer holding the primaries were given in THE
rRIBUNE's advertising columns yesterday The polls
in each district will be kept open fro TO 10 p M
except in the XIth, XVIII, XXlst, and XNlIld Dis
tricts " here requests having been made, signed by
Twenty-Five members, the Constitution prescrbes,
the polls will be open from a. IN. TO 10 p m 1t is
provided however, that the inspectors shall IN each
district receive the votes OF all voters Who may be in
line Mt 10 y. M
The contest In tic Ist District is intensified by
the hitter feeling between the leaders John H. Grimes
and Frank Redmond, who nearly came TO blows on
Tuesday evening in the Grand Opera House Hall. i'm
mediately after the adjournment OF the County Com
mttee Both sides willie bring OUT every available
The feeling could not be intense in the XVfth
District than il u.s. The opponents of Captain Cregan
are well organized and well ledtand VIII give the
Captain such shaking up as he has never get re-
ccIved He and his friends showed their weakness
when they did dare TO allow the sixty additional
names OF Repu Dcans to be placed ON the roll OF the
Tho contest in the XXIIId District grows in interest
M tine time for the primary approaches Inc lacloh
who claim to be regular say that they have been mis-
renrosented by Leroy b. Crane; that no names OF
Democrats have been placed on the roll TO vote on
trauducntly and that Frank Raymond does not lain
20 he the boss OF the district and is not recognized
as ,ucb One OF the most prominent members OF the
organization who elected last iall against great
ODDS said Yesterday: No name is borne on our rolls
with intent TO vote it trauduently Nor Will any
kno yn Democrat be permitted to vote at the primary
The case OF Nathan Lpnan has been quoted as that OF
n man on our roll who is on the Tammany ticket
The fac, IA that Nathan Lipman is well-known and
active Republican. He cannot prevent his name from
being placed on the Tammany ticket But he Ia not
Democrat aad does not claim to be. George r. WEB
ster was n prominent Republican. HE name is borne
from wear TO year the roll Ii is stated that he had
Joined Tammany Hall II he comes up To vote ne VIII
lie compelcd to that is his intent to support
| the Republican ticket In good faith. Now as TO thc
allegation that Frank Raymond is the boss OF the
district that simply absurd No one cap claim that
he or any one ese controls the district Ihat mas been
shown in many instances. notably mt state oonven-
TONS Frank Raymond, tho executive memDer from
IN, district TO the County Committee, denied that no
or any one else was the boss" sO-caed, OF the ds-
trct with reference to the names OF alleged Demo-
Gratis borne on the roll he gave the same explanation
"a the official before quoted The ticket made up Tor
Friday evening bears the name OF Ashbe T. Fitch Tor
president; Donald Mclean first vice-president;
Georee b. Brown, treasurer; Frank Raymond, Ashoei
p Fitch Thomas Allison Join A. Eageson, Robert
w Bonynge and others equally we'll known tor dele
gates to the County Committee.